Frequent in-frame somatic deletions activate gp130 in inflammatory hepatocellular tumours
Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT: Inflammatory hepatocellular adenomas (IHCA) are benign liver tumours defined by the presence of inflammatory infiltrates and by the elevated expression of inflammatory proteins in tumour hepatocytes1,2. Here we show a striking activation of the IL6 signalling pathway in this tumour type, and sequencing candidate genes pinpointed this response to somatic gain-of-function mutations in the IL6ST gene that encodes the signalling co-receptor gp130. Indeed, ~70% of IHCA harbour small in-frame deletions that target the binding site of gp130 for IL6, and expression of the most frequent gp130 mutant, Delta-STVY190, in hepatocellular cells activates STAT3 in absence of ligand. Further, analysis of hepatocellular carcinomas revealed rare gp130 alterations always accompanied by M-CM-^_-catenin-activating mutations, suggesting a cooperative effect of these signalling pathways in the malignant conversion of hepatocytes. The recurrent gain-of-function gp130 mutations in these human hepatocellular adenomas explains their inflammatory phenotype, and suggest that similar alterations may occur in other inflammatory epithelial tumours with STAT3 activation. HG-U133A Affymetrix GeneChipTM arrays were used to compare the expression profiles of 4 Inflammatory hepatocellular adenomas (IHCA) and 4 non related non-tumor livers. RNA labelling, hybridization and analysis were carried out following the manufacturerM-bM-^@M-^Ys instructions (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA). Raw data were obtained by using Microarray Suite 5.0 (MAS5) software, embedded in the Affymetrix GeneChip Operating Software (Santa Clara, USA); the resulting raw numerical data (CEL files) - available as supplementary files - collected from 8 Affymetrix GeneChips were pre-processed for normalization and filtering as described in [Rebouissou et al., J Biol Chem 2007, 282(19):14437-46, PMID: 17379603; Rebuissou et al., J Hepatol 2008, 49(1):61-71. PMID: 18466996 and Rebuissou et al., in preparation].
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Sandrine Imbeaud
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-11819 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
ACCESS DATA